"Ha ha...brutally honest as always Nil," laughed Agatha nervously, " and sorry about that, Chi."
"I'll talk to her."
"Hey...P-"
Agatha tapped Pascale on the shoulder and she immeadeatly stood up, "I...need to go," responded Pascale coldly as she put up her tray and began to leave.
"Pascale, Pascale wait!" called out Agatha as she followed after her.

Nil sighs, remaining where he is. "Pascale has been really off lately. I'm starting to seriously worry."

Grabbing a wrap from the cafeteria quick-pick line and moving to sit down alone so he could think over how to best go about reviewing the rest of the unvisited clubs, Sora noticed Agatha sitting by what seemed to be a few of the others out of the corner of his eye.

I need to find out as soon as possible anyway I guess.

About to go over to ask the question on his mind, Sora stopped when he noticed the two leaving the table. Deciding it would probably be best to ask later, he sat down at a empty table near the side of the cafeteria and proceeded to do what he first planned. Looking around the cafeteria after he was done with his brief brainstorming, he decided to look for the other Student Council members. Questioning them about the issue wasn't what he necessarily looked forward to doing, but it worked for the moment as things were.

Is that my fault...? Chi frowned, as this thought appeared in her head. Maybe I was too harsh...She wanted to help me after all...Is that it?

Now she was left with Nil at the table. "Yeah... She's been even more...closed...than usually..." Chi sighed as well.

She just finished eating her chili, and she still had almost half of her bag of chips left. Moving the pack closer to Nil, she asked. "Want some?"

He holds up his hand. "No thanks. How're you holding up? You're her roommate after all. I'm guessing her mood affects you more than me."

"Pascale!" called out Agatha as the two left the cafeteria.
She stopped but only turned around halfway.
"What, Agatha..."
Agatha smiled half heartily, "What's going on Pascale, you can tell me anything."
"Can I?"
Agatha laughed it off, "Oh cmon, Don't be like-"
"You're so fake."
Agatha's smile dropped off of the face of the Earth, "What...what are you talking about?"
"You pretend to know me but you've been gone for so long."
"Pascale, you know that wasn't my fault!"
"It never is for Ms. Perfect."
"You can't-"
"Ah," giggled Pascale, "You're right, you're far from perfect, you're just a chienne jalouse."
"Pascale! What's gotten into you," called out Agatha, her voice wavering. She reached out to her sister.
"Don't touch me!" she growled as she callously slapped her hand away and walked off.
Agatha simply stood outside of the cafeteria doorway, frozen white as though she had seen a ghost.
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"My god...I've finally beaten my best time!" cheered Kyle as he waved his Vita in the air. Annoyed, Lyora put her book down.
"Oh wow, get this guy a medal."
"Congrats Kyle." added Frenchy as she clapped.
"Thank you, Frenchy. At least, somebody understands talent."
Lyora closed her book and laughed, "Talent? I bet I could beat your silly time in one try."
"Pfft, you don't even know what the game is."
"Doesn't matter," Lyora argued, smiling as she placed 50 euros on the table.
Frenchy sighed as she rubbed her forehead, "Here we go..."
"Deal! Here!"
"Ok...how do you play..."
"Oh boy...Easy money,"

"Well, I don't know, she just..." Chi started, but after a moment she rose her head and frowned in silence. Her mind focused on something else, and she stopped crunching her chips or...moving in general. She instinctively began to listen to an argument that just reached her ears. She was a really nosy, and curious person after all. This, her, spending whole days in cafes, "practicing" eavesdropping, and her impressive hearing sense, made it possible to hear - at least parts of it - Pascale's and Agatha's argument. Chi wasn't able to understand the whole thing, but probably the most of it.

She remained in the same position for the whole duration of them, talking. It had to look kind of dumb, since she was frozen with her mouth full of chips, while her hands were, one holding the bag, and the other was still inside of it. Suddenly getting up, she crumpled the bag, and swallowed the chips.

"Sorry, we'll talk about it some other time, ok?"

Throwing her trash to the trashcan as she was passing it, Chi approached Agatha. "Hey, uh...what was that about...you're okay?" Just now she realized what she was doing, and scratched the back of her head, slightly blushing. "Sorry... I might've hear a thing...or two...Probably shouldn't, you know..."

>Logout

Nil just slowly picks at his food for the rest of the lunch period, not feeling particularly motivated.

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"No...I'ts fine, I'm...f-I'm ok."
She wiped her cheek and smiled once again, but it was clearly a front, even her voice was slightly cracked interspersed with sniffling.
"Don't worry about me...or Pascale, I'm sure she's still hung up on what I told her yesterday...so it's my fault really."
Agatha sighed shakily.
"I'm kind of a mess," she admitted.
>logout

Walking over to the table the Student Council was at, Sora formulated what he planned on saying in his mind before approaching within earshot range. He wasn't very good at advanced social situations, so he figured that whatever he wounded up saying would be as straight-forward and honest as his limitations permitted. The main detail he worried over was if he would actually get the chance to say anything.

"Hey, can I talk to you guys for a sec? It's important." Face relatively devoid of emotion, there was a growing amount of fatigue popping up that he did his best to hide from the others around him as he spoke.

>Logout

That really sounds like my kind of "fine"...

"What did you say to her, that could possibly make her so mad?" Chi bit her tongue right after this sentence left her mouth. As usually, she was letting words flow, before thinking about the contents. "...Sorry, I should stop asking these questions...I uh...I can talk to her if you want..."

Putting her hand on Agatha's shoulder for a moment, as a cheering gesture, Chi passed by her. Without actually waiting for her response, she followed Pascale. She has never seen her so angry before, which made her just as curious, as worried...

"Embarrassing..." muttered Agatha as she wiped her eyes, "I'm supposed to be stronger than that..."
Putting on a brave smile, she walked back into the cafeteria and sat back down with Nil.
"Sorry about that."

Music blaring from her headphones, Pascale coded in a fury as she burned downed the keyboard of the computer in the lab.
Ms. Basil looked waringly in her direction, but instead decided to let her blow off steam.

>Login

"It's fine," Nil said. "I'm worried about her, since she's acting so depressed, but I'm sure she'll come to somebody when she's ready to talk. For now, we should focus on passing this project. Should we look around online for solutions?"

Finding Pascale wasn't a hard quest. Even though Chi's first guess was their dorm, Aiko did notice her in one of the classes on their way. There was still some time until the bell ring, so she decided to talk to her.

Approaching unaware Pascale, she took a chair, and rotated it in front of herself, so that the backrest would be in between her legs. Eventually placing it next to Pascale's, and sitting on it, she gently tapped her shoulder, and then crossed her arms in front of herself, placing them on the backrest. Hearing how loud the music in the headphones was, she decided to wait until Pascale takes them off.

"Hey..."